A HEADTEACHER from Liverpool has become an internet-sensation after starring in his own version of hit global video Gangnam Style.

Almost 51,000 people have viewed the star turn of Jeff Hughes, headteacher at Penketh High School in Warrington.

With the help of his media department, 50 teachers and a handful of sixthformers Mr Hughes, from Aintree, made the hilarious video version of South Korean Psy’s multi-million-selling track to thank pupils for hitting the school’s exam targets.

And after becoming a YouTube sensation himself, the video proved a perfect leaving present for Mr Hughes, 58, who retires in July.

The school, a media and visual arts specialist which runs its own in-house media company, utilised its own hi-tech film production equipment to make the video as authentic looking as possibly, although toning it down to make it family-friendly.

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The staggering attention to detail includes Mr Hughes doing his own impressive version of the hilarious horse-riding dance made famous in the original video.

Mr Hughes, whose teaching career included 20 years at Fazakerley High School, has become such a local celebrity that he has been asked to judge a junior-Gangnam Style competition at a forthcoming village fete.

He said: “I think this might become my party piece forever. It started out as a light hearted promise and bit of fun to encourage the Year 11 students to work hard in their exams and took a life of its own.”

The surprise video, painstakingly made in and around Warrington over four weeks, was first shown to stunned pupils at a leavers assembly on Friday.

“The response from the pupils and community has been fantastic and as headteachers we often have to project a serious demeanour so it has is nice top have a bit of fun and show that we don’t always have to take ourselves too seriously.”

Penketh High head Jeff Hughes in Gangnam Style action

The filming was done before and after school and to ensure the budget was practically zero kind-hearted businesses and community figures did their bit to help when it came to providing props and locations for shooting.

This included the Mercedes-Benz dealership in Warrington putting the school in touch with a customer who loaned the use of her red SLK class car.

The garage even supplied personalised Penketh High School number plates.

It is the same model of car which features in Psy’s original offering which, in December last year, became the first video to clock up more than one billion views on YouTube and has a Guinness World record for the most ‘liked’ song ever .